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Namah Self-forgetfulness and its beauty

its storyline, the past, present commentaries Simultaneously, we also have the golden
on happenings, and future worries, its likes key — by offering our limited self fully
and dislikes, its desires and demands, its to the Divine (like a wave crashing back
unfulfilled wishes, its reputation, its approval into the ocean), an utter self-giving, one
and rejection by so-called ‘other separate finds that completion and contentment
selves’. All this chatter of the surface-mind without the need of any ambitious external
leaves one drained and unfulfilled, always accomplishment, although the latter may
focused on what is lacking (never paying happen as a by-product on the path.
any attention to what it has already, which is “Man has a right to beatitude since that is
taken for granted) and the series of ignorant what he was created for. But any egocentric
pursuits to fulfil the abyss through material movement is the very opposite of this
possessions, which makes us toil even beatitude; so that if you seek it for yourself
further. alone, you repel it instead of attracting it.
By self-forgetfulness, by self-giving, without
When we realise that our life is becoming a asking anything in return, by merging, so to
misery, a burden, we will diagnose that we say, into this beatitude so that it may shine
are just too full of our limited sense of self, upon all, you find the inner peace and joy
which is really a false-identity, and hence the which never leave you (1).”
signal from the Universe in the form of misery,
saying: ‘Dude, you are following the wrong When we live identified with the ego-
track, the track of partnering with falsehood.’ consciousness, or a sense of lack, a sense of
It is my time now to listen to this signal of being a limited separate self, we are always
misery/suffering, and let go of my sticking to looking for — what can life or people give
my notions of myself and the world. me so as to fulfil me, complete me? And
it’s no wonder that we keep running in all
Benefits of self-forgetfulness the possible directions, wanting, wanting,
but we still remain unfulfilled. We have no
All of us want beauty and harmony in life. lasting joy or peace in life. They only come
We want clarity and peace and light. But due in glimpses, and very soon, misery is back,
to our distorted perceptions, our ignorance, when the focus on ‘me’, the separate self, is
we are compelled to resort to ignorant means back. How to resolve this misery? How to
to attain peace and beauty, and hence we have joy back in life?
always push harmony and beauty away,
although wanting to have them in life.

All the movements originating from the
‘sense of lack’ or from the egocentric self, are
roots of our misery. I feel that I am incomplete
and running after people or material gain
will make me complete — this is our biggest
illusion and causes a lot of drainage of our
life-energies, at all the unnecessary places.

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